On Sunday, the federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from the deployment of any units of the National Guard to Oregon after a legitimate whirlwind, which began a few hours ago, when the president sent California troops to Portland to protect federal buildings from ongoing protests.
During a hastily caused evening telephone hearing, the US District Judge Karin Immort provided a temporary prohibition that requires California and Oregon.
A day earlier, the same judge Temporarily blocked The administration from the deployment of troops of the National Guard of Oregon in Portland. But on Sunday, the president switched to sending the troops of the National Guard to the state from neighboring California, and then from Texas.
Immort, which was appointed Trump during its first period, issued its second, wider order at the end of Sunday after it accelerated the lawyer of the federal government and asked the question of how to move to the sending of troops in California and Texas to Oregon was a “direct violation of the order that was issued yesterday”.
The White House did not immediately comment on the decision of the judge.
Small protests took place at night outside the Portland immigration facility since the second term of Trump began in January. There were random outbreaks, including in June, but for several weeks, the demonstrations were attracted only by a few dozen people, until the Trump administration mobilized the National Guard of Oregon on September 28 over the wishes of the Governor of Oregon Tina Kotec.
The Pentagon spokesman stated in his statement that about 200 federal members of the California National Guard, who were on duty around Los -Ageles, were reassigned to Portland. The Governor of Oregon Tina Kotek said that about 100 arrived on Saturday, and about 100 were on the road on Sunday.
Initially, both states requested a narrower order that would block only the troops of the National Guard of California, which were sent to Oregon, but asked to submit an application to all troops of the National Guard after the order was submitted to the court, which said up to 400 people of the National Guard of Texas, activated for deployment in Oregon, Illinois and, possibly, in other places.
Ground Grill Lawyers for the federal government, accusing them of finding the end of her order on Saturday, blocking the deployment of the troops of the National Guard in Oregon.
“How can the federal National Guard from California not be a direct violation of the published yesterday?” She said on Sunday.
Immort told one lawyer of the federal government that he “misses the essence” because the conditions in the field in Oregon have not changed, and she did not see the legal basis and the need to help the military help local law enforcement agencies.
The lawyers of the federal government tried to argue that Oregon and Portland were not standing and that California could not show harm if some of its national guard went to another state.
Scott Kennedy, a lawyer representing Oregon, said that he learned about the mobilization of the National Guard of the Texas Guard just 24 minutes before an emergency hearing on Sunday evening. “This is a little like the fact that we play a rhetorical mole,” he said to Immergut.
The governor of Texas Greg Ebbott said on the post on Sunday evening that he allowed the call to the defenders of the troops from his state. “You can either fully ensure the protection of federal employees, or leave the road and allow Texas Guard to do this,” he wrote.
Events in Oregon take place a day after Governor Illinois made a similar announcement About the troops in his state are activated.
Kotek said that the last step of federal officials is an attempt to go around the Saturday decision of the court, which blocked the deployment of Oregon protection members.
“The facts in the field in Oregon have not changed,” Kottek said during a press conference on Sunday. “In Oregon, there is no need for military intervention. There is no uprising in Portland, there is no threat to national security. ”
California governor Gavin News, Democrat, said in his statement that the staff from his state was already on Sunday and called the deployment of “exciting abuse of law and power.” He said These troops were “federalized” and put under the control of the president A few months ago, from his objections in response to riots in Los -Ageles.
“The Commander-in-Chief uses the American military as political weapons against American citizens,” News said.
In the relevant court, a lawyer in the military department of California said that the Northern Command of the US Army advised the Department on Sunday that an order would be issued by holding the 300th guard federalized until the end of January.
Portland in Portland in Portland has recently become a place of night protests of immigration and customs activities. A small number of demonstrators gathered on Sunday evening, welcome when they learned about the order of the judge.
On Saturday, Immergut temporarily blocked the Trump administration plan for the deployment of National Guard Oregon in Portland to protect federal property against the background of protests after Trump called the city a “destroyed war”.
Both Oregon officials and Portland residents said that the description was ridiculous. According to Kotek, the protest was relatively small and localized in only one quarter of the city with a population of 650,000 inhabitants.
Immergut issued on Saturday an order in anticipation of further arguments in a lawsuit represented by the state and the city. She said that relatively small protests did not justify the use of federal forces, and the deployment resolution could harm the sovereignty of Oregon.
The General Prosecutor of California Rob Bont said that Trump’s desire to expand the National Guard of one state in another “goes beyond the norms or practice” of any president.
“But this president is determined to use as much power as the courts will give him. This battle did not end, but today's reproach of the president’s illegal actions is a step in the right direction, ”Bont said in a statement after a decision on Sunday evening.
The mayor of Portland, Keith Wilson, said on Sunday that he saw how federal agents were engaged in the fact that he called the unjustified use of force and without analysis of spraying pepper and blows during protest outside the ice institution.
“This is an aggressive approach trying to light the situation, which otherwise was peaceful,” Wilson said.
According to Wilson, Portland warned the civil rights department of the Ministry of Justice on the actions of agents.
Trump described both Portland and Chicago as cities, repenting crime and riots. Since the beginning of his second term, he sent or talked about the sending of troops in 10 cities.
Trump authorized the deployment of 300 troops of the Illinois National Guard to protect federal officers and assets in Chicago on Saturday.
The office of Governor Illinois J. B. Pritskker said that the situation in Chicago “does not require the use of the military, and, as a result, the governor opposes the deployment of the National Guard in accordance with any status.” Pritzker did not receive any calls from federal officials about deployment, his office said.
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Weber reported from Los -Angeles and Brook from New Orleans. Journalists of Associated Press Ethan Smop in Portland, Oregon; Jennifer McDermatot in Provice, Rod -Alend; And Josh Boac in Washington contributed to this report.
